Interesting. Jinan is the modern center of Shandong province, one of China's oldest continuously inhabited provinces according to the traditional view of the gr

Interesting. Jinan is the modern center of Shandong province, one of China's oldest continuously inhabited provinces according to the traditional view of the growth of Chinese civilization. It is pretty much denuded after 3,000 years of intensive agriculture, so any means to reuse food waste is welcome. If anyone has the chance to visit, the nearby town of Linzi has a musuem of cuju[0], an ancient Chinese game which FIFA recognized as the earliest form of association football. The ancient capital of Qingzhou[1] is fascinating, with some of the oldest mosques and most important Buddhist statuary as well as carved Buddhist grottoes on nearby mountains and a huge picturesque park-valley dividing in the middle of town. And the nearby town of Dezhou[2] holds the tomb of a Philippino Muslim sultan who is thought to have been murdered by the Chinese after failing to display appropriate deference to the Emperor. Then of course there's the home of Confucius - Qufu[3], the old German treaty port of Qingdao[4], etc. Not a bad province for those with historical inclinations! On the subject of food waste, we are planning to collect and recycle from our food robots but this may be hampered by regulations frustrating importing food waste across the Chinese/HK and Chinese/Macau borders. We shall see. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuju https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuju [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingzhou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingzhou [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezhou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezhou [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qufu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qufu [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingdao http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingdao